On the Penitentiary System in the United States and its Application to France by Gustave de Beaumont & Alexis de Tocqueville

Author:Gustave de Beaumont & Alexis de Tocqueville
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

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1We found, when visiting the House of Refuge of New York, that more than half the children who have been received there until this day are there because of evils that would have been imputed to them. Thus, out of five hundred thirteen children, one hundred thirty-five lost their father, forty their mother, sixty-seven were orphans, fifty-one had been pushed into crime by notorious misconduct or lack of care by their parents; there are forty-seven whose mother had remarried.

2The various authorities who can send children to the house of refuge are:1. The courts of criminal justice;

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